About 150 Migrants Cross Into Croatia From Serbia

Vulin visited on Tuesday the border crossing Horgos 1 which was closed today by Hungarian authorities, and said that it was undertaken “without notifying Serbian authorities” and that this created a problem with refugees from the Middle East who keep arriving at the no-man’s land between the two countries.

Serbia’s foreign ministry protested over the firing of tear gas and water cannon into its territory.

“I lifted the razor wire for her, she got in before a Hungarian border patrol came by”, he said.

“We have seen 140,000 migrants cross our country and only 550 have applied for asylum in Serbia“.

At the border, migrants barred from continuing their long journey north towards a new life in Germany chanted as the sun went down, and one held up a banner saying: “Mama Merkel, please help us!”

While the tough new measures have mostly stopped the flow across the border, isolated groups still managed to crawl under or climb over the forbidding barbed wire of the 175-kilometre (110-miles) border fence. “If they had not done so, given that Serbia is a safe country, they will be rejected”, Orban was quoted as telling private broadcaster TV2 on Monday.

Tens of thousands of men, women and children – many from war-wracked Syria and Iraq – have been racing to reach Western Europe before their path is blocked by tighter border controls and a dramatic roll back of the European Union policies of open movement across frontiers.

“Based on our history, we are always in solidarity with the refugees“, Peter Szijjarto told The Associated Press in an interview.

Rumors were rampant. One suggested that Syrians would be able to pass through the border, but it was unclear where.

The great migration has led to the unravelling of one of the 28-member EU’s signature achievements, its Schengen system of border-free travel across much of the continent.

“I don’t know what to do – stay here or try some other way to cross the border”, said Ahmed Sami from Aleppo, Syria. My wife and children can not stand on their feet any more.

Last year, a total of 280,000 migrants crossed European Union borders, the agency said.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic criticized Hungary’s decision to seal its border with Serbia for migrants and says Croatia will not do the same. “We want them to apply worldwide rules under which they have obligations to these people“.

Police warned that migrants coming across open spaces between the two countries could be in danger of walking on still active minefields left over from the 1991-1995 war following disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.

US President Barack Obama said the crisis had worsened and required cooperation from Europe and the United States.

“We are ready to accept and direct those people, their religion and colour of skin is completely irrelevant, to where they apparently wish to go – Germany and Scandinavia”, Milanovic told lawmakers.

Austria will impose new border controls on its frontier with Slovenia.

Elsewhere in Europe migrants remained on the move.

Hungary also deployed three military vehicles mounted with guns some 100 to 200 metres (yards) from the border, an AFP reporter at the scene said.